If I haven’t been brushing my teeth often enough, I may end up with bleeding from my gums, a condition called

A patient has had a diagnosis of colon cancer and will need surgical removal of the colon. She will end up with a permanent hole in her abdomen for drainage into a bag. The permanent opening is called a

You have been having chronic pains in your upper abdomen, and your family physician refers you to a specialist in diseases of the digestive tract called a

You have just been diagnosed as having an enlarged liver. The doctor describes it as

You have taken your friend to the emergency room with severe lower back pain and blood in his urine. After examination and lab tests, the physician reports that your friend has an inflammation of his kidneys and makes a diagnosis of

Your friend who is a long distance runner is told by his physician that he has an enlarged heart, but that this can be a normal finding in well conditioned athletes. The doctor writes on his chart that your friend has

Your mother is having her uterus surgically removed. Removal of uterus is called

A patient has become sterile due to chronic inflammation of her uterine tubes from frequent infection with sexually transmitted diseases. This tubal inflammation is called

A patient with epilepsy has had a procedure performed that records brain electrical activity. This procedure is called

A female patient has a special X-ray procedure of the breasts performed. The X-ray image is called a